BBC demonstrates smuggled North Korean phone and how it implements both censorship and accountability in the user interface…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113416
#NorthKorea #OnlineSafety #censorship #totalitarianism
#1984 #totalitarianism #hegemony #vodafone #mobile #phones . It is only when you lose access to your mobile phone number that you realise just how much power those companies exert in your day to day. I'm in dispute with them, many of my other accounts, shopping, enquiries, access to other platforms rely on a phone number for two factor bollox. No valid mobile number, set many moons ago, no access. Hmm. not changing for that bunch of cunning stunts.
J. D. Vance: Der gefährlichste Mann der USA? | ZEIT ONLINE
https://www.zeit.de/politik/2025-03/j-d-vance-praesident-usa-politikteil?utm_source=perplexity
> In geheimen, geleakten Chats hetzt J. D. Vance gegen die EU und kritisiert Donald Trump. Wer ist der Mann an der Seite des US-Präsidenten – und was hat er vor?
What can a playwright-turned-president and a novelist in exile teach us about power, truth, and resistance?
Václav Havel’s The Power of the Powerless offers a bold vision of how ordinary people can resist authoritarianism- and Milan Kundera helps us see its limits and complexities.
Check out my new blog post exploring how ideas shape resistance:
https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/havel-kundera-and-power-of-powerless.html?m=1
"Because journalists have dropped all skepticism, EVEN ABOUT Elon's claimed departure, here's my non-exclusive list of DOGE debunkings. The entire thing was a fraud that seems to have achieved one main thing:
consolidating govt data in a way ripe for #totalitarianism."
-M Wheeler
#DOGE #Musk #TrumpRegime #Data #Fascism #Resist #June14 #USPol
https://www.emptywheel.net/portfolio-item/doge-debunking/
This is full on Kim Jong-Un.
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Then remind your MAGA friends, who claim to be Christians, of The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A31-46&version=NIV
Have them read it ALL, especially:
45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’
46 “Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life.”
Hannah Arendt discussed a new type of government, totalitarianism, in detail. She warned that loneliness can lead to totalitarianism, a government with a ruling ideology that uses terror to accelerate its ideological goals. She warned that the potential for totalitarianism still exists today.
You can read more about her on my blog post:
https://blog.philoblognotes.com/2025/05/explaining-hannah-arendts-origins-of.html?m=1
𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐡 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐭 - 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑶𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑻𝒐𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒎 - Chapter One: Antisemitism as an Outrage to Common Sense
I'm reading Arendt's history on the horrors of Stalinism and Nazism. Here are some of my reflections; read and follow along with me!
#FreedomOfSpeech is being killed in USA by Republicans.
Texas basically just ruled political cartoons as criminal offence.
Takes effect September 1st 2025.
One step closer to #totalitarianism
Trumpland by Chris Hedges
Read by Eunice Wong
The corporate coup d'état and collapse of American democracy began long before Trump. He is simply snuffing out what remains.
#Culture #Poltics #Economics #Humanities #Trump #CorporateCoup #Despotism #Totalitarianism #Technocracy
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumpland-read-by-eunice-wong
@jwildeboer
Eye now demand the US government follow the example of Germany and immediately exclude MAGA and the Republican Party from receiving any payments as they cannot be considered a democracy-supporting party.
#GermanPolitics #USPolitics #Demicracy #Totalitarianism #TuckersBalls
Free Judge Dugan!
FBI arrests Wisconsin judge in the courthouse where she works and accuses her of obstructing immigration officials.
Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was accused of helping a man evade authorities.
Rule of law, anyone?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/judge-hannah-dugan-milwaukee-arrest
#USPolitics #Totalitarianism #JudgeDugan #FBI #Wisconsin #TuckersBalls
I think I’m going to buy a domain name to dedicate to the fight against #totalitarianism in the US. I’m going to see if I can build a website and make it go viral through SEO. It’ll be good practice for me.
The inspiration came from watching #handmaidstale. The very beginnings of this are already happening. We need organized resistance to #christiannationalism and #christianfundamentalism. If we don’t organize and fight now, it will be too late.
If you use your phone to speak truth, understand this:
Your phone might already be speaking back—for them.
https://www.amazon.com/Cybersecurity-Activists-Watermelon-Book-Condor/dp/B0F5NKC8Y5/
Stay alert. Stay encrypted. Stay dangerous.
#SurveillanceState #Cellebrite #NoviSpy #ZeroDayExploit #DataPrivacy #ActivistsUnderAttack #PrivacyMatters #DigitalSecurity #EndTheCreep #Totalitarianism #SurveillanceCapitalism #DigitalRights #TechForGood #KnowYourRights #StaySafe #PhoneHacking #Spyware #ZeroDay #Resistance #ProtectYourData
Cybersecurity for Activists
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F5NKC8Y5
International Link: https://mybook.to/opsec
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
Hannah Arendt, The origins of totalitarianism
